How we can begin to rebuild trust in ourselves:
• Sit down and write a list of the things that we are doing that we don't want to be doing. For example: This could be our way of eating/sleeping, our work, who we interact with, how often we're on social media, what we do with our free time, etc.
•For each thing that we have written, come up with a way that we can either a) improve that thing or, b) completely change it. For example: If we decided that we want to spend less time on social media, we can make a plan to set limits on the "screen time" settings of our phone, we plan to log out of out of all our accounts so that we need to log in to use them and we can decide that we are going to spend that time reading a specific book instead.
• Take the necessary initial action towards one of the plans that we have come up with. Often times, starting with the easiest plan can be best for this. For example: To initiate the plan above, we would then go and set the limits on "screen time", log out of our accounts, go and get the book and put it bedside our bed (or go and borrow it from a library/order it from online/print the pdf)
• Follow through with the plan every day. Consistency over a couple weeks will create new habits and when we create new habits, we prove to ourselves that we can trust ourselves. For example, follow our screen time limits, stay logged out of our accounts ascide from when we specified in our plan that we will use the app, continue to read our book.
• Once we feel good about this and have created a new habit, it's time to move onto the next plan on our list. We can refine it if we need to, ensuring that it is realistic for us to do, but also not selling ourselves short.
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